Will The 2008 Apple WWDC Keynote Be Better Than Last Year’s?
In a few hours, Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote presentation at Apple’s 2008 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC. I hoping (and expecting) it will be much better than last year’s, which I found pretty underwhelming. Why? Well, at the 2007 WWDC, Apple announced no new hardware; and all that emerged was:
- The fact that the much anticipated “top secret” new features in Leopard didn’t exist
- There would be a release of Apple’s Safari web browser for Windows
- A statement that there would be no native third-party SDK for iPhone
At the time, I wrote:
Apple’s answer to the question of third-party app support on iPhone is the web browser i.e. AJAX, no SDK required… this simply isn’t good enough as a third-party application strategy.
It seems that Apple agreed with me because, in March of this year, the company announced a roadmap for a great SDK, along with a decent commercial strategy. So, what will happen at this year’s keynote? In a couple of hours, we’ll know…
Asam Bashir wrote:
Secret features at the time where speculated to be tied in with dot mac service, which we should see news on now, with some collaboration with Google.
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-keynote-coverage-live/
Expected news on:
1. 3G iPhone - maybe a family of devices to address different markets
2. OS X iPhone and firmware 2.0 - apps and enterprise support, geo-tagging, worldwide roll-out
3. dot mac rebranding and upgrade to Google clouds, back-to-my-mac-from-my-iPhone….
4. New form-factor device 7-9″ iSonofNewton type device - inkwell advances
5. Development roadmap for Mac OS X 10.6, OS X iPhone/OS X Leopard re-branding
6. One more thing, hopefully MacBook Pro form factor update and support for Intel Centrino 2 platform with 1066 MHz system bus and socket-B support, but maybe have been delayed because of Intel and pushed to Q3…
Posted 09 Jun 2008 at 4:22 pm ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
Me and Mobile Me…
Posted 09 Jun 2008 at 4:27 pm ¶
simon wrote:
Yes, I’m expecting there to be much more substantial content in Steve’s keynote this year.
Also, I’ll have something to (pre)announce if Apple announces with Me and MobileMe today
Posted 09 Jun 2008 at 4:49 pm ¶